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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A woman decides to go home to Iowa from New York, but only has enough money for a child's half-price train ticket. She passes herself off as a 12-year-old, but runs into problems when a man decides to take care of her until her mother arrives.
"***1/2...has lots going for it..."--USA Today
23) Conquest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A Polish countess sacrifices her virtue to become Napoleon's mistress to save her homeland.
25) Mame
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
She'll coax the blues right out of your heart. Madcap Auntie Mame is suddenly her nephew's guardian in this sparkling adaptation of the Broadway hit.
26) Sons
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin
Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a...
Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a...
27) Knock on wood
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A neurotic American ventriloquist performing in Europe is unable to control the words coming out of his dummy, resulting in a near-nervous breakdown. His manager, and best friend, orders him to see a famous psychiatrist in Zurich. What follows is a zany adventure involving secret weapons, international spies, and the beautiful Dr. Ilse Nordstrom.
28) Atlas shrugged
Author
Language
English
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Description
The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world -- and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas Shrugged" is unlike any other book you have ever read.
29) Pollyanna
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When orphaned eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
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Series
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English
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The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
32) Little women
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
33) Fahrenheit 451
Author
Language
English
Description
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
His final and greatest work, Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published serially in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Set against a modernizing 19th-century Russia, the characters experience moral struggles of faith, judgment, and reason amid a patricidal murder which forms the center of the plot. The novel is full of ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. Dostoyevsky...
35) Jailhouse rock
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Elvis stars as a small-time convict who uses his time in prison to practice music, then goes on to become a big-time performer. Includes featurette and Elvis photo scrapbook.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
37) Show boat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Based on Edna Ferber's novel and the play by Oscar Hammerstein about the lives and loves of a Riverboat Theatre Troupe.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread, the title is drawn from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process.
Following the death of her husband, a widow named...
39) Red Shoes
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A young ballerina is torn between love and success. Includes commentary, documentary, interview, theatrical trailer, booklet, and more.
"...wonderful classic..."--Library Journal
"****...greatest ballet film ever made...Highly recommended. Editor's Choice."--Video Librarian
40) Anne of Avonlea
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Series
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," teenage Anne Shirley becomes a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island. Now an independent young woman with a knack for trouble and misadventures, Anne gains new insights about love, friendship, and the ways of the world.
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